Regional Governance Readings

•  Ahn, T.K. and Ostrom, Elinor. 2002. Social Capital and Second Generation Theories of Collective Action: An Analytical Approach to the Forms of Social Capital. Prepared for delivery at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29-September 1. [file download] 

•  Axelrod, Robert. 2000. Six Advances in Cooperation Theory. Analyse & Kritik 22: 130-51. [file download]

•  Bernardo, Ramiro and Scholz, John. 2005. Micro-Incentives and The Dynamics of Policy Networks. Prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, September 1-4. [file download]

•  Bickers, Kenneth N. and Stein, Robert M. 2000. Federal Aid and Collective Action. Prepared for Presentation at the 2000 Annual Metting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 2-5 [file download]

•  Callahan, Richrd F.. Governace: The Collision of Politics and Cooperation. [file download]

•  Callahan, Richard. 2002. The Politics of Structural Choice: New Public Agencies, Regional Projects, and Cooperation. [USC dissertation] [file download]

•  Dedekorkut, Aysin. 2003. Determinants of Success in Interorganizational Collaboration for Natural Resource Management. [FSU dissertation]. [file download]

•  Dixit Avinash and Olson Mancur. 2000. Does Voluntary Participation Undermine the Coase Theorem?. Journal of Public Economics 76: 309-35. [file download]

•  Faguet, Jean-Paul. 2005. Governance from Below: A Theory of Local Government with Two Empirical Test. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Feiock, Richard. 2004. Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation. Georgetown Univ. Press [file download]

•  Feiock, Richard C. and Hyung-Jun Park. 2005. Bargaining, Networks and Institutional Collective Action in Local Economic Development. Presented at the American Society for Public Administration, Milwaukee, WI, April 2-5. [file download]

•  Gerber, Elisabeth and Gibson, Clark. 2005. Balancing Competing Interests in American Regional Governance. Program in American Democracy Speaker Series, Notre Dame University, February 1. [file download]

•  Gillette, Clayton P. 2001. Regionalization and Interlocal Bargains. New York University Law Review 76(190): 190-271. [file download]

•  Hamilton, David K. 2000. Organizing Government Structure and Governance Functions in Metropolitan Areas in Response to Growth and Change: Critical Review. Journal of Urban Affairs 22(1): 65-84. [file download]

•  Hoetker, Glenn and Mellewigt, Thomas. 2004. Choice and Performance of Governance Mechanisms: Matching Contractual and Relational Governance to Sources of Asset Specificity. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Isett, Kimberley Roussin and Provan, keith G. 2005. The Evolution of Dyadic Interorganizational Relationships in a Network of Publicly Funded Nonporfit Agencies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(1): 149-65. [file download]

•  Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 2000. Business Coaltions as a Force for Regionalism. Reflections on Regionalism, edited by Bruce Jatz, 154-81. Brookings Institution Press. [file download]

•  Krueger, Skip and McGuire, Michael. 2005. A Transaction Costs Explanation of Inter-Local Government Collaboration. Paper prepared for the Eighth National Public Management Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 29 – October 1. [file download]

•  LeRoux Kelly M. and Carr, Jered B. 2005. The Social Structure of Interlocal Cooperation in Metropolitan Areas. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 7-10. [file download]

•  Lowery, David. 2000. A Transactions Costs Model of Metropolitan Governance: Allocation Versus Redistribution in Urban America Regionalization and Interlocal Bargains. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10(1): 49-78. [file download]

•  MacDonald, Lynn. 2005. Government Structure and Local Public Expenditures. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Macher, Jeffrey and Richman, Barak. 2006. Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Science. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Matkin, David and Frederickson, George. 2006. Metropolitan Geo-Governance: Institutional Roles, Jurisdictional Proximity and Interjurisdictional Cooperation. Presented at the Meeting of Collaborative Pubic Management Conference, Washington D.C., September 28-30. [file download]

•  McCarthy, Linda. 2000. Competitive Regionalism: Beyond Individual Competition. Reviews of Economic Development Literature and Practice No 2. [file download]

•  Morse, Ricardo S. 2005. Facilitating Interlocal Collaboration: Community and the Soft Skills of Public Management. Paper prepared for the 8th National Public Management Research Conference, hosted by the University of Southern California, September 29 to October 1. [file download]

• Mullin, Megan. 2005. Governing the Tap: Functional Specialization and the Politics of Water Districts. [U.C. Berkeley dissertation] [file download]

•  Nunn, Samuel and Mark S. Rosentraub. 1997. Dimensions of Interjurisdictional Cooperation. Journal of American Planning Association 63(2): 205-19. [file download]

•  Ostrom, Elinor. 1999. Context and Collective Action: Four Interactive Building Blocks for a Family of Explanatory Theories. Paper presented at the workshop on political theory and policy analysis, Indiana University, September 6. [file download]

•  Ostrom, Elinor. 2002. Type of Goods and Collecitve Action. Paper to be presented at the University of Maryland, February 22. [file download]

•  Ostrom, Elinor. 2005. Understanding the Diversity of Structured Human Interactions. Understanding Institutional Diversity Ch.1: 1-46. [file download]

•  Park, Hyung Jun. 2005. Collaborative Approach to Economic Development of Local Government and Institutional Collective Action. [FSU dissertation] [file download]

•  Post, Stephanie Shirley. 1999. The Structure of The Public Goods Market and Intergovernmental Cooperation. Paper presented at the workshop in political theory and policy analysis, Indiana University, June 9-12. [file download]

•  Post, Stehphanie Shirley. 2002. Local Government Cooperation: The Relationship between Metropolitan Area Government Geography and Service provision. Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston , Massachusetts, August 29-September 1. [file download]

•  Post, Stephanie Shirley and Stein, Robert M. 2000. State Economies, Metropolitan Governance, and Urban-Suburban Dependence. Urban Affairs Review 36(1): 46-60. [file download]

•  Rundle, Janathan. The Impact of Formal Fiscal Rules on Local Government Borrowing Cost: An Empirical Assessment. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Solli, George Andrew. 2005. Predicting Success or Failure of Tax-base Revenue Sharing Attempts: A Comparative Analysis. [FIU dissertation]. [file download]

•  Svara, James H. 2005. Issues Concerning Regional trictire in the United States. National Academy of Public Administration - Standing Panel on the Federal System. [file download]

•  Thompson, Grahame. 2003. Between Hierachies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network of Forms of Organization Ch 6: 149-187. New York: Oxford University Press. [file download]

•  Thurmaier, Kurt. 2005. Building a Citizen-Accessible Information System for Managing Iowa's Local Government Networks and Interlocal Agreement. Presentation of University of Iowa study of Interlocal Agreement Network. March 18. [file download]

•  Visser James A. 2002. Understanding Local Government Cooperation in Urban Regions: Toward a Cultural Model of Interlocal Relations. American Review of Public Administration 32(1): 45-65. [file download]

•  Weir. Margaret, Wolman. Harold and Swanstrom, Todd. 2005. The Calculus of Coalitions: Cities, Suburbs, and the Metropolitan Agenda. Urban Affairs Review 40(6): 730-60. [file download]

•  Wood, Curtis. 2003. Metropolitan Governance in the Kansas City Region. Presented at the Association for, Budgeting and Financial Management Conference, Washington D.C. September 18-20. [file download]

•  Zeemering, Eric S. 2005. City Council Members and the Representation Function in Intergovernmental Decision-Making. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, January 5. [file download]